It takes a special type of enthusiast to pour hours into pummeling Pikachu repeatedly in his far too chirpy face, and an even more avid fan to spend your days speculating which forgotten character will be added to an already packed roster.

Platinum Games designer Hideki Kamiya is not one of those fans. Far from it.

Fed up of tweets calling for Platinum characters like Bayonetta, Viewtiful Joe and Okami's Amaterasu to be added to the next Smash Bros, plus ones asking how excited he is for the Nintendo brawler, Kamiya made his thoughts known.

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